Welcome to Corinne & Jeremy’s new-home blog! We’re not bloggers (yet), but we are soon going to be first-time home owners, and shortly after, home renovators. We’ve already had a lot of interest from friends and family regarding our real estate adventures, and figured this would be a fun way to share them with you!

Before we even started trying to pick an official layout for the blog (gonna stick with the Xmas one for now anyway), we decided we wouldn’t officially publish anything until we were in contract….

SO if you are reading this, BIG NEWS: We are in contract to buy our first house!!!!!

Really not much else to report just yet… We signed contracts, the seller signed the contracts, now on to getting the mortgage!! We did the pre-qualify thing, so hopefully this part of the process will be smooth sailing (::gulp::). We currently have an “on or around” February 3, 2011 closing date, but are hoping to do it sometime in January, fingers crossed!

In the meantime, while we “patiently” wait for all of the paperwork to go through, we figure we can keep ourselves occupied here with some backstory on our house hunting, and any other home-related topics that may pop into our heads.

One request of anyone who does have any interest in following our blog…. Please, as much as they’d be appreciated, no congrats on the house stuff until we actually close on it! We’ve quickly discovered that there’s SO much more than just having our offer accepted, (despite what you may have seen on House Hunters) that we don’t want to do any celebrating until the whole thing is officially official!